NEWS FROM PAGES PAST
50 years ago — April 29, 1966
A building and renovating program is under way at Sacred Hearts Academy. The unsafe old seventh-and-eighth grade building which occupied the center of the campus has been demolished. Construction will soon begin on a new two-story building on the former athletic field along Harding Avenue. … The new building will feature the latest in educational trends – following wall partitions for greater flexibility and team teaching, built-in television facilities, sliding doors opening on an interior court and spacious lanais.
25 years ago — April 12, 1991
Keeping vigil during the blackout
Vigil candles come in handy in a power failure, chancery employees discovered during the April 9 Oahu-wide electrical blackout. Votive lights from Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace, which shares the chancery building, lit the corners of darkened stairwells and restrooms for the church workers who tried to make light of a powerless situation.
Most of the downtown building’s employees left by midday when it became clear that the electricity was not going to return anytime soon. Others used the respite from their lifeless computer screens to catch up on a little manual filing by window light. The Hawaii Catholic Herald dusted off an old manual Underwood to get in a little typing. …
Over at the Cathedral, the noon Mass went on as scheduled with a nearly normal-sized congregation. Visiting priest Father Larry Hendel of San Jose celebrated the liturgy by the light streaming through the open windows and extra candles on the altar.
10 years ago — April 7, 2006
Pope creates cardinals, prays for their love for church
Pope Benedict XVI created 15 new cardinals from 11 countries March 24, praying that the red garments they now wear would inspire them to an even more “passionate love for Christ, for his church and for all humanity.” …
U.S. Cardinal William J. Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, was the first to receive his red hat and the scroll attesting to his membership in the College of Cardinals.
As the top-ranking member of the new group, the former archbishop of San Francisco was called to address the pope on behalf of the new cardinals.